It's been ages since Amazon was just a place to buy books. If you let it, Amazon will sell you groceries and entertain you. At this point, it seems perfectly feasible to live a life enveloped completely by Amazon.

More people than ever are shopping online, which means more packages left on doorsteps are at risk of being stolen. So-called "porch pirates" have become as reliable a part of the holiday season as pumpkin pie, Mariah Carey, and It's a Wonderful Life. And Amazon has a plan to catch the thieves. Police in Jersey…

France won't wait on the rest of the European Union to start taxing big tech. French finance minister Bruno Le Maire says the country will move ahead with a new tax on Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon starting Jan. 1, 2019. The tax is expected to raise €500 million ($570 million) in 2019. France and…

Amazon’s “Rivet” line includes products that are “strikingly similar” to Williams-Sonoma’s West Elm brand, including a $300 orb chair the household goods maker introduced two years ago, according to Williams-Sonoma’s complaint. "It is implausible Amazon could have conceived of a product line with nearly identical product designs which feature product names containing the very same non-descriptive terms WSI uses in connection with these products, other than by intentionally undertaking to copy WSI’s West Elm product line," according to the suit. Amazon, through a spokeswoman, declined to comment on the trademark- and patent-infringement complaint, which was filed Friday in San Francisco federal court.

Shares of Apple (AAPL) have tumbled 24% in the last three months as part of the larger market pullback. But investors do have legitimate concerns about Apple going forward as iPhone unit sales slow. Still, the question is should investors take Apple's downturn as a chance to buy AAPL stock at a discount?